A group blog for working on UnRuly Quilting projects and most especially UnRuly Letters. What is UnRuly? Liberated, wonky, improvisational, mis-matched, points cut off FUN.

Friday, February 21, 2014

Unruly Birds

Hello out there!

It's been a long time since anyone has posted here.Aren't you feeling very unruly?Here's a little quilt (27" x 40") that I finished this week. I found the "HOW TO" about the birds in a fun book called Hot Flashes of Inspiration by Kandi Kelderman and Kim Schissel.

Here's a close-up of one of the blocks. I quilted the whole thing side to side with straight lines about 1/2 inch apart. It took a while, but gave the quilt a neat texture and feel.

Joe Tulips - my "straight" lines aren't really straight. I tried that once and it made me CRAZY. For this and others like it, I marked the center to get started, then just followed the edge of the presser foot - sometime making spaces a little wider, a little narrower. The over all appearance pleases me.